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World Bank Confident In Tanzania’s Tourism Growth Potential

World Bank Confident In Tanzania’s Tourism Growth Potential

From Star Africa

Tourism is already a major contributor to Tanzania’s economy, the World Bank said in a statement on Thursday. “There is no doubt Tanzania is in a good place with tourism and yet could do considerably better,” says Philippe Dongier, Country Director for Tanzania, Burundi and Uganda.

According to Dongier, Tanzania has abundant natural tourism attractions and is well recognized internationally including and the country received one million visitors in 2013 bringing in $1.5 billion in foreign exchange earnings, which is remarkable by any account.

“But there is potential for further growth as also emphasized by the Government; and some of the needed reforms are quite urgent as the status quo could be costly for the country,” Dongier said.

Tourism directly employs close to half a million Tanzanians and contributes to almost 20 percent of total exports.

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